The first thing one noticed was the different arrangement of the percussion instruments. While the standard drumkit was ...

Gianluca Pistoia from Italy, who plays handpan at meditation sessions across the world, talks about the instrument A hotel lobby, busy and buzzing. Amid all the activity, a foreigner walks in and ...

Taking up a soothing musical instrument like the handpan may just be the perfect way to start or enhance a self-care routine. I'm a visual storyteller, working primarily in the medium of photography ...

It is also said to be grabbing the attention of amateur and seasoned musicians in India. Relaxing, pleasing, calming, meditative — common adjectives handpan players use while talking about the ...

(From left) Jimmy Ch’ng, Bernard Goh, Phang Jian Hao, and Kok Wei sharing a light moment during a rehearsal at the Hands Percussion Studio. (Muhaimin Marwan@FMT Lifestyle) Upon first glance, the ...

During a tense scene in Netflix’s hit drama Narcos, a Colombian official confronts Pablo Escobar over his prolific drug smuggling, and their standoff is punctuated by the strange sounds of a metallic ...

Rafael Sotomayor playing handpan at Yugong Yishan in Beijing. Photo: Li Hao/GT Rafael Sotomayor from Santiago, Chile, is only 35 years old, but he had visited 50 different countries before he came to ...

Josiah Collett, a 10-year-old autistic boy from Broxbourne, England, had always struggled with social interactions. But things were getting worse. In school, his peers told him that he shouldn’t be ...

Oval Sound has created the very first digital HandPan instrument aptly named OVAL that allows you to play, learn and perform music thanks to its companion smartphone and tablet application. Even ...

John Guinta knows stress: For two decades he was an air traffic controller responsible for guiding airplanes — with all those people inside — into safe takeoffs and landings. He knows relaxation too: ...